Literary and dialect languages influence each other and, as a result, mutual enrichment occurs, in particular botanical vocabulary. Comparison of folk literary floristic names the Ukrainian language reveals: common for dialects (with phonetic, word-formative, semantic variants dialects); with different lexical meanings; many words broader structure dialects; figurative meaning existence lexemes...

This study presents a data-driven categorisation (cluster analysis) of 86 Swedish dialects, based on durational measurements of long and short vowels and consonants. The study reveals a clear geographic distribution that, for the most part, corresponds with dialectological descriptions. For a minor group of dialects, however, the results suggest mismatches between the quantity system and the ob...

While it is has often been observed that the product of translation is somehow different than non-translated text, scholars have emphasized two distinct bases for such differences. Some have noted interference from the source language spilling over into translation in a source-language-specific way, while others have noted general effects of the process of translation that are independent of so...

In this paper we apply various clustering algorithms to the dialect pronunciation data. At the same time we propose several evaluation techniques that should be used in order to deal with the instability of the clustering techniques. The results have shown that three hierarchical clustering algorithms are not suitable for the data we are working with. The rest of the tested algorithms have succ...

We describe several systems for identifying short samples of Arabic or SwissGerman dialects, which were prepared for the shared task of the 2017 DSLWorkshop (Zampieri et al., 2017). The Arabic data comprises both text and acoustic files, and our best run combined both. The SwissGerman data is text-only. Coincidently, our best runs achieved a accuracy of nearly 63% on both the Swiss-German and A...

This project measures and classifies language variation. In contrast to earlier dialectology, we seek a comprehensive characterization of (potentially gradual) differences between dialects, rather than a geographic delineation of (discrete) features of individual words or pronunciations. More general characterizations of dialect differences then become available. We measure phonetic (un)related...